Orient a model in a photo using photomatch

orei

Hi my friends.. i've a question for you..

I made a big area with a castle, a churc, street, park.. and others things, with the actual shape.. how today wee see them..

now.. i've an old picture, that make me able to find a particular builds that disappear and now we can see them.. so.. i need to insert the picture in my model and rebuild the old builds in the real place where they were in the past..

how can i do this?? i do those steps:

orient my model to make the scene similar to the old picture..
with the camera menu, choose match new photo
when i insert it.. i'm unable to match the model to the picture..

how can fix it??

Sorry for my BAD english...

thanks a lot!!!

museummaker

If I understand you correctly, Keep the models you have done but start a new SU file for the ones in your old photo. The use the photomatch in SU to model this buildings you want to recreate. The merge the two models together. Keep the as independent groups so you can scale them to adjust for any difference in scale. Photomatch is good but only approximate in scale.

Sounds like an interesting project.

orei

i imagined that have to do with that step..
thanks a lot!!!
Thanks for the opinion about our work.. is the thesis for the 5th year of architectural university in my town.. Politecnico di Milano in mantova (north of italy..)

We work in a location that's affect by a huge year of story.. in the same place were fight many and many times in the world war.. and in the indipendence war. There is a medieval castle that today is hide by a big obsolete building.. in the specific.. this building hide the oldest (the only one..) door that allow the access througt the walls. Is a wonderful place.. because this location is on a hill.. in the highest point.. and we have a viewangle that are amazing!!! we want to remove that monster.. and replace a part of it.. with the old enter that with the drawbridge allow to enter in the stonghold! this bild is too small.. is a simbolic artefact that we want to rebuild symbolically and give it a second function. Infact.. we want to wash out the square that will appear after removal the build next to the walls, and recreate a new hypogeum structure, with an open theater, conference room, a big biblioteque, and 2 or 3 plans underground parking.

If we want.. i will post here the step progress of our work!!!

bye my friends.. and always sorry for my bad english..

Gaieus

Hi Roberto,

Please, DO post those example. This project seems to be extremely interesting and I myself am interested in these photomatch things for exactly the same reason as you. Here is an example of a Turkish mosque in my city in its use (rather modified) as a Christian church (after a couple of centuries the Turks "left")

And here is how it looks today (after a historic reconstruction) from about the same view:

But of course the reconstruction of the "very original" could be extremely exciting and interesting matched with these photos.

pilou

And after use Kerpano

Gaieus

Coolapp.

And yeah, what I'm actually planning to do is a kind of interactive walkthrough in my city in its different, historic ages. I've also been thinking about panoramas (rather than "real" 3D walkthrough) because they sem to be streaming better on the internet.